Nathan Mccurdy
Staff Platform Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Mccurdy is a Staff Platform Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 15+ years of experience building scalable infrastructure and 11 years in professional roles across consultancy and product teams. He specializes in cloud migrations, Kubernetes platforms, delivery pipelines, and large-scale configuration management—having worked on Puppet at scale and contributed improvements to the widely used voxpupuli/puppet-consul module. A pragmatic polyglot who codes in Python and Go, Nathan combines deep Linux, networking, and security fundamentals with a focus on operator experience and reliability. He has led platform engineering and professional services engagements, helping organizations move from bare metal to cloud while codifying best practices in IaC and tooling. Notably, his open-source work emphasizes code quality and maintainability, such as modernizing Puppet patterns for compatibility and linting.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (AS), Computers, Electronics, and Network Technologies, Associate of Science (AS), Computers, Electronics, and Network Technologies at Honolulu Community College
Github Skills (10)
plugin-development10
configuration-management10
puppeteer10
devops10
drupal-module10
package-development10
puppet9
automation9
automations9
puppet-bolt8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/puppet-consul
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
A Puppet Module to Manage Consul
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Nathan focused on improving the module's code quality, readability, and maintainability. They made several updates, including switching from the anchor pattern to the contain function for Puppet 4+ compatibility. They also added parameter data types and moved static defaults to init.pp. Additionally, they improved code style and made linting improvements throughout the codebase, indicating a focus on best practices.
windows-puppet-modulepuppetpuppet-modulelinux-puppet-moduleconsul
natemccurdy/puppet-purge_node
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
A Puppet Task to purge nodes
Contributions:46 commits, 13 PRs, 72 pushes in 5 years
nodespurgepuppet
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